The XIII International Forum

December 7-8, 2023, St.Petersburg

Arctic: today and the future

HISTORY: 2017 - VII INTERNATIONAL FORUM «ARCTIC: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE»

Information about report: Forming an effective system of handling and processing waste in the Arctic: specificity and solutions

Working session

Forming an effective system of handling and processing waste in the Arctic: specificity and solutions

Project*

 


Russia has launched a full-scale reform of the solid municipal waste management system (SMW). In the process of its implementation the regions of the Arctic zone have faced a number of problems that can eventually lead to a situation when the export and utilization of waste under the old principles will become illegal, while the formation of a new system is impossible due to its economic unfoundedness in the Far North. Experts and many representatives of federal and regional authorities declare the need to develop a special approach to the treatment of SMW in the Arctic, taking into account the distances, low population density, climatic and natural conditions.

Issues for discussion:

  • State support for the development of the sphere of TCO treatment in the Russian Arctic
  • Formation of regional schemes for the management of TCR in the Arctic regions: positive experience, problematic issues, prospects for implementation
  • TCO in the Arctic: subsidizing the transport of waste or changing requirements for accommodation facilities?
  • Technologies for utilization and processing of waste for the Arctic zone

Disputants:

ARTEM SIDOROV*

Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources

ANDREI CHIBIS*

Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation

ROMAN KUPRIN*

Deputy Director of Metallurgy and Materials Departments of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

ALEKSEI MAKRUSHIN

General Director of the Association of HUI “Development”

RUSLAN GUBAIDULLIN

Acting Director of Association “Clean Country”

KIRILL FRIDMAN

Deputy Director of the FBIS “North-West Public Health Research Center”

 

* Changes in the draft program are possible